Forget about the fact that Iraq has enough radiation floating around it to = 250,000 Hiroshima bombs. Right? Lets blame it on munitions which 1000s
upon 1000s of soldiers spend hours around everyday without problems.

We are not aware of any official reports indicating an increase in birth defects in Al Basrah or Fallujah that may be related to exposure to the
metals contained in munitions used by the US or coalition partners,” a US Defense Department spokesperson told the Independent. “We always take
very seriously public health concerns about any population now living in a combat theatre. Unexploded ordnance, including improvised explosive
devises, are a recognized hazard.

Following is a Department of State fact sheet on the health effects of depleted uranium, based on U.S., U.N. and other investigative sources:

World Health Organization and other scientific research studies indicate Depleted Uranium poses no serious health risks.

Depleted Uranium has not affected the health of Gulf War veterans.

There have been no independent studies related to Depleted Uranium inside Iraq. Since 1991, Iraq has refused to allow health inspectors assess the
alleged impact of Depleted Uranium.

Depleted Uranium does not cause birth defects. Iraqi military use of chemical and nerve agents in the 1980's and 1990's is the likely cause of alleged
birth defects among Iraqi children.

Isn't uranium highly radioactive and therefore dangerous to humans and the environment?

No. Studies conducted through March 2002 consistently indicate the health risks associate with radiation from exposures to depleted uranium are low -
so low as to be statistically undetectable, with one potential exception: Radiation doses for soldiers with embedded fragments of depleted
uranium.

tates and NATO weapons used against Iraq in 2003 have led to health crises in the country, The Independent newspaper reported on Sunday. The
findings, published in the Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Bulletin, show the rise of birth defects among Iraqi infants in the cities of
al-Basra and Fallujah. The authors of the report correlate defects and abnormalities with the exposure to metals released by bombs and
bullets.

Uranium is a naturally occurring chemical element that is mildly radioactive. Humans and animals have always ingested particles of this naturally
occurring substance from the air, water and soil. Only when uranium is enriched to produce material for nuclear reactors is the radiation level
hazardous, requiring very careful handling and storage. Depleted uranium is roughly 127 times less radioactive than 90% enriched uranium.

Natural and depleted uranium have not been linked to any health risks. There have been 16 epidemiological studies of some 30,000 workers in U.S.
radiation industries. Some of these workers, particularly in the early days of the industry, had very significant exposures to uranium particles.
According to scientists in the field, there have been no recorded cases of illness among these workers as a result of their exposure to uranium.

This is the reason we were so confused on Nuclear Bombs. We were going to sites all throughout the damn country, getting MASSIVE radiation spikes in
obvious storage units, but no damn bombs. We couldn't figure out why and still do not know why. How the hell these missile storage sites have massive
radiation spikes polluting entire villages and bases, but no bombs.

I also have a brother who just came out of Iraq recently, and they were put on a regime of Iodine Tablets. I don't know how spread that was, but
apparently the radiation was so ridiculously high, it was done as a per-caution for their unit.

Except DU isn't a mutagen or radioactive above background levels. Yes, it's not healthy when eaten or inhaled, neither is literally any other heavy
metal. I would consider DU exposure to be very low on the threat pyramid if you're living in a warzone like Fallujah. And DU has nothing to do with
bombs, it's used in ballistic munitions only.

Did you ever consider the idea that maybe Iraqi actions caused this? Not only the dumping of biochem waste, but igniting the oil fields of Kuwait back
in '91.

Depleted Uranium Weaponry used since the war in Yugoslavia. And its world wide. Its like an all out nuclear war with this and even Fukushima against
the citizens of the earth, and weapons of mass destruction, depopulation. What do you do with nuclear waste, so dangerous it won't go away for
billions of years? You throw all over the countries you go to war with and pave your streets with it, make signs with it. Well if you're exremely
negative beings in partnership with demons that is!

Not just missiles. Bullets, spent ammunition has also been dumped by the mega ton off the east and west coast of North Amercia in our prime
fishing waters.

CHBC did a report on it.

Also, its been mixed in with our scrap metal supplies, so toys, fridges, just about anything is possibly contaminated.

And I heard that was the reason some of the US signs, glowed in the dark, and someone shared some inside info that it was even mixed into the pavement
and cement. And when I heard that, wouldn't put it past them. They really want to make us wear it.

Originally posted by absente
Exactly - yet bombs containing Uranium were found during the Yugoslavian / Balkan war too. There were a lot of reports, studies, even a trial in Hague
on this topic,

Care to show a proper source for that claim, where are the reports on the trial in the hague?

So what's basically happening is that the "Coalition Forces" use "conventional weapons", which contain enriched uranium

Care to show us a source for these weapons that use "enriched" uranium?

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The Serbian government pushed that as well as several NGO's from that area. Hague never accepted a trial, neither did the UN. There were several
resolutions too. You can do your own research on that, I am not your secretary.

There were efforts made for a trial in Hague, yet it never started due to "lack of evidence".

As for enriched uranium just do a google search, I thought this is ATS, not "yahoo answers" !

No. Astonishingly, it was not depleted uranium. It was slightly enriched uranium, the kind that is used in nuclear reactors or atomic bombs. We found
it in the hair and also in the soil. We concentrated the soil chemically so there could be no mistake. Results showed slightly enriched uranium –
manmade.

The results are summarized in Table 1 and Table 2. They show that the sample LS6 was more radioactive than either the background or the Lebanon sample
LS7 both in terms of alpha and beta activity and LS6 contained significant amounts of Enriched Uranium.

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